Baltimore's fall movie season comes on strong in October

Michael SragowBaltimore Sun reporter

From the Michael Sragow Gets Reel blog:

The dailies and newsweeklies and entertainment shows have already set off their starters' pistols, but let's get serious: in Baltimore, as in most American cities, this year October 1 marks the beginning of the fall movie season.

That same day, Baltimore audiences will start to see some of the conversation-starters already in New York, like Philip Seymour Hoffman's debut as a director, "Jack Goes Boating." And just a week later comes Davis Guggenheim's provocative and heartbreaking attack on the American educational system, "Waiting for Superman," Randall Wallace's elating racehorse movie "Secretariat" (with Diane Lane and John Malkovich), and "Never Let Me Go" (with Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield), Mark Romanek's adaptation of a 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro novel that I thought was unfilmable. I treasure the book, but I can't wait to see whether Romanek rose to the challenge of filming it.

All that in two weeks in October -- a bracing relief from the summer, don't you think?